• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The point here is say you are in business with X party but it’s illegal. X party can buy an nft worth nothing or generate one. You buy the NFT for the amount of your bill with X party. You’ve now technically not paid them for whatever illegal thing, instead you bought an nft from them. You could also break this down into multiple NFTs, buying 100 $100 NFTs from various “owners” that don’t link back to X party through shell companies, and you’ve now paid them $10,000 “for pictures of chimps”.

    NFTs only exist for money laundering and illicit transfers. Once they’ve been transferred their value no longer matters, the business has been done.

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      1 hour ago

      Thank you! Now for the first time, i finally see the slightest sense in NFTs. I really didn’t get it from the start. I heard various explanations and they never made any sense to me. Left me confused every time until now.

      Its just a mask for a deal in the background. Ok now i get it.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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      14 hours ago

      NFTs only exist for money laundering and illicit transfers

      And at least to some degree scamming people even if that’s not the main focus. I know a few people that got full on scammed by it